Pyrrhus

Summary

Dominique Pagani refers to Pyrrhus, Racine's character, in sessions on very different subjects between 2014 and 2022. In a session on neo-fascism, the ideology of desire and Clouscard's thought, he describes him as "possessed by his possession"1. He then returns several times to the character's situation: in love with his captive Andromache, Pyrrhus neglects Hermione and is ready to betray the Greek side to save Hector's son2. He also points to the character's other side: it is Pyrrhus whom Racine has describe the massacre of Troy3, and it is he who says that the child should have been killed on the night Troy was sacked4. These mentions come up in sessions on crisis and war, on Proust, on Nerval and Baudelaire, and on the passage from Kafka to Proust. The passages do not specify the connection he draws in each case.

1. 1#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: on the thought of M. Clouscard26 Sept 2014 · 17:48
2. 2#1.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 17:54
3. 3#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge7 Apr 2022 · 25:01
4. 4#9.24 “Ruled like music paper!” Nerval, Baudelaire (part 2)30 Jun 2021 · 1:21:04

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.